The stage but echoes back the public voice. The drama's laws the drama's patrons
give, For we, who live to
please, must please to live.
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All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.
eugène ionescoThe drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? Because one did survive the wreck.
Herman MelvilleThe drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candlesticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense nor myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on its roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.
seán o'caseyThe drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.